I Took a Photo of the Sun and DAMN...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2024
- I finally snapped and took a photo of astrophotographer's least favourite star before I lose my mind completely.
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Our star is like a wife who cant get any attention from her hubby because he is always out late looking at other stars.
not to mention shes constantly trying to kill us
Only most people don’t know how to give make their wife have a coronal mass ejection. 😜
Best High Point Scientific promo ever...."scuse me while I kiss the sky".
Hehe phew
Getting baked, a cold one, Astrophotography, and gettin laid under stars... just like Baseball, Hotdogs, Apple Pie, and Chevrolet!
On the plus side, at least the warts you’re seeing on the sun are happening 8 minutes ago and not 5 mill light years ago.
Or watch the moon about a second ago
I love the idea of a bunch of baked astronomers now spamming HPS with astrophotography questions 😂 great video mate!
Hehe
I've had one clear night since December 2nd and I was drunk.
blurry drunk eyes syndrome (BDES)?
Are you sure the mount can handle the PST 😆😆😆
It looked like a bodybuilder thats jacked from the waist down with skinny arms.
Only one counterweight, too. Dude lives on the edge.
oh hi!!!! remember me??!
Its A Small Telescope.. Perhaps The Computer in Mount Wont Notice The Payload😄😄😄
*POS
Looking good, Dylan! I'm usually on hold for the sun during December and January because it's too cold and the sun is too low.
Now those were some equally sick beats :D
Hehe thx Helena 😆
Dylan has fallen to the dark (or should I say light?) side.
It is a lot of fun to image the sun! I am new to astrophotography, I ordered solar sheets off amazon and made my own filter cap for my telescope. With this i can practice polar alignment and imaging basics more often. In the winter the weather here is -30c at night and a much nicer -10c during the day. Less cloud too. I have been having a blast!
Damn that’s cold !
First time I've watched and laughed at a paid promotion... TWICE!
😆
High Point, NJ. Home of High Point Scientific and High Point State Park. It's a ridge along the Shawangunk range with a memorial tower and great views of NY, NJ and PA. Nothing to do with "getting high." :D
Dude. So many of us slaying our night time hobby on the altar of solar imaging while getting baked. I’ve had 1 clear night in 40 days and I’ve just bought a new mount. Keep em coming.
Back in the 1970s I used a Pentax H3 35mm to take a b/w photo of the sun and the Transit of Mercury on a 6" F8 Newtonian scope - no solar filter. The primary mirror was not silvered, so only 4% of the Sun's light made it back to the diagonal mirror and on to the film and the primary focal plane of the telescope..
Sounds like you've gone star-craving mad!
Groan 😆
As far as puns go, that was stellar
@1:29 "So join me in my back yard under the deathly Australian hot summer Sun..." Sounds great Dylan. Today in Byron Bay I see it's 28C and 21C tonight, while here in Winnipeg it's -24C, tonight it will be-29C, and tomorrow will be -32C. Plus it's cloudy.
I became an amateur solar astronomer in ..... 1963 by projecting an image from my 1.25" refractor .... Now I also have one of these scopes. I was amazed to see you easily slide off the Cx telescope. I can hardly budge it!! I also have a PST.
I figure as I get old I'll just choose a big scope and leave it there.
Great video. Well scripted blending satirical humor and delivering an acceptable product at the conclusion while keeping the folks HPS happy.
4:43 That's f*cking hilarious. On the plus side, your mount looks sturdy enough 😉
Enjoy your sense of humor... For me it's "Remember, its all about free entertainment"
Thanks Randy :)
OMG you’re so right. You DO have the best comment section on TH-cam. Lol. Great Vid Dylan!!!
Hehe it’s true
When Skies Are Cloudy at Night I Love Solar Observing and Some Bird Watching🔭👍🐦🐦
The most fun astrophotography videos on TH-cam 😂
Another great video, I actually LOL' ed a few times. Im on the Sunny Coast and have had nothing but cloudy nights since November.
Crazy right?
This was so well crafted I watched it twice then rolled a Camberwell Carrot!
Hehehe
Using a PST requires patience and as it has a sweet spot, sometimes requiring averted viewing. the longer you LOOK THROUGH THE EYEPIECE the more detail you will see. I see filaments, plages, active areas as well as prominence detail. Some of my best "astro-photos" have been taken as single shots (no processing) with a basic holiday style digital camera at full zoom to avoid vignetting.
Baked astronomy mountaineering . Could well be an Olympic sport one day !
I’m in
I haven’t watched your videos in a few months. I forgot how much I like them.
Thanks :)
That beginning was pretty strange. I've never seen Dylan snap like that before. I hope hes ok.
High Point Scientific is located right next a state park called High Point, which does serve as a dark sky site for some club i can't remember. Sadly only got drunk there.
Thats gotta be the best sideways to a sponsor Ive ever seen
Nice first light with the Coronado!
High Point Scientific is based in Montague, New Jersey by the High Point State Park (which has the highest mountain in NJ). It just so happens that the Governor of NJ passed a bill which legalized Marijuana, which is even better! Now you can get high at High Point while doing astronomy with High Point Scientific equipment.
1803 feet! Well, if you want to call that high, who am I to argue?
Yessss
Winter snow in Kingman AZ and is wrecking my beer budget.
One could aptly name the PST as a Pretty Sad Telescope.....but with that said I have always enjoyed using it....☀️
Kind of glad you made a video about solar-photography. Been enviously watching Trevor and some others posting their amazing videos, and here I am, suffering from AP-withdrawals having had a single clear night since December 1st.
High Point Scientific is located near High Point, N.J. It's a town in New Jersey.
Same here in Brazil, about 8 weeks with no night stars... Be well, Dylan
This was hilarious. I watched it twice and had literal tears 🤣
I find it best to spark the bowl after SGP is up and running. Back focal distance on an OAG is impossible otherwise.
Lol
That's so funny, I watched it a second time just for the promo. And yes, I am a HighPoint customer in the US. Hmm.
Great video! (Also did you buy a new lens or anything because it looks great)
Thanks :) no I just fluke the right settings sometimes 😆
That setup was ridiculous 🤣
Thanks, I had wondered what the High in HighPoint Scientific meant!! All cleared up now! Where's my wallet, so I can support this wonderful business?!
Thats Who Ive Used From The Start😂😂😂They Are Great
"Best comment section on TH-cam" Most definitely!
Colour coordinated bookshelf......
References to mood enhancers....
Tiny scope on big mount.....
Looking into the sun.....
Get well soon
And enjoy the NIGHT sky
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
Not sure why I kept laughing all the way through the video! Maybe I read your tweet this morning and now I am seeing the image. Anyway, you got me some good ideas about the "Del Coronado"! Awesome as always!
I'm doing solar imaging ATM, hence why I watched your video! Awesome btw. 👌
But, erm, guess what I was doing while sorting out my filters and watching your video! 🍁😆
Nice beer drinking addition to the intro
what a birthday gift
Glad to see the mount handled that scope. 😉
It was touch and go
You’ve now inspired me to try and capture the sun again. I’ve had a loan of a Lunt Solar Scope now for a while, but have struggled in capturing anything “good”. But I’m now keen to give it another crack. 👍🏼
My name is Dylan O´Donnell and I need Prozac. (weather driven madness). Great Pic
The sun is well... The sun!
I like doing science and getting high! Dylan, youre the best! :)
Back in the day (35 or so years ago) I used to project the sun on to a piece cardboard with my dinky 2.5 inch refractor it showed sun spots really well but thats about it. you could set fire to things to depending on where you projected the sun haha. Solar filters are definitly much more impressive though.
Lundt seems to be a quality established company so you'll be ok! another solar telescope 🔭 company is Solarscope which are made on the Isle of Man a rather obscure quasi independent island in the Irish Sea roughly halfway between England and Ireland.
Love it, great work! Now, get lost you damn clouds!!!
the mount is thinking Dylan WTF are you on 😃🌟🔭👍
Haha I think you’re right.
Solar astrophotography could be a kind of rehab for alcoholic astronomers... Or the end of the line if you dare to open a beer at 10 am! Great work as always Dylan!
The Coronado is a cool device. I have ground down my eyepiece sleeve to achieve focus directly.
Regards Andreas
Dylan, seriously..
the intro is getting louder every video!!
I love it.
Personally I'm fighting with ordering a solar telescope. I currently have a non-Ha filter and the sun seems rather boring. I think what'll push me over the edge is the increased solar activity in a few years! But as always, really, really great video. From ~1000 to ~30,000 subscribers so quickly.
You keep turning it up ;)
Never thought I'd see you use an eyepiece especially a fancy one like that. Lol I do feel your pain I haven't had telescope out since November.
It was very underwhelming.
8 weeks without stars? Yeah, about the same here in Belgium.
And I even just got trolled by the weather today. Beautiful day and then thick clouds just as you are about to start imaging. Classic...
@@Antiath well me too I also live in Belgium! This day was completely fucking clear and the moment it got dark the motherfucking clouds started to role in and now it’s back to permacloud. I did manage to capture Mercury tho!
As a solar photographer, and one who has a PST for quick peeks, I'd say this is a fantastic first attempt, Dylan. Nice job.
Thanks!
LOL took a couple hits as I sat down to watch this !! Cheers Man !! plus snow tonight lol
Bahaha!
Epic!!! Coronado on the CGX in a dome... People at my work are looking at me like I have three heads cause I laughed too hard. Back to work! Astro equipment doesn't purchase themselves and I'm going to get fired.
Thanks for the Video ! All of us out here under Covid Lockdown are desparate for anything Astro related and we wait at out PC's for hours hoping for a new Video . LOL . Sad but true eh ? I see you are using AutoStakkert 2 and not 3 . Any reason ? I see Emil has confirmed a v4 will be released this year . Can't wait . Cheers . /SRK
I heard about that! Yeh looking forward to the update.
Keep on blowing the smoke Dylan! Cheers. x
"Mom...he's scratching his astronomy itch again!" Cheers, CS and GB from -17C South Dakota!
Dylan I love the titles of your videos and sense of humor 😅
Thanks Will! 🍻
@@DylanODonnell thank you for the great content and motivation to push myself to collect better sets of data and learn to process them into scientific works of art. Although I want to deep dive into this addictive hobby I know nothing with this should be so frustrating that you can’t simply have a beer 🍻 and enjoy the clear skies 🌌.
Edit: I just was gifted a celestron nextstar 130 SLT and saw the rings of Saturn with my own eyeballs 👀 for the first time at the age of 29. I know I need an equatorial mount for long exposure photography but that doesn’t mean I can’t mount my phone to the eyepiece and get some awesome photos of Orion.
Really cool. Never tried it. I'd probably blow out my retina trying to do it, being half baked here in S Louisiana!
I got ripped once thinking it would be fun to shoot but..... I couldn't remember how to use auto focus etc and so I went in and made a big plate of omelette, biscuits and hash browns to kill it and the went to image. Never again!!! But! After getting on target it was great!! Ha ja
That intro killed me
Nice shots of the Sun. I actually laughed out loud when I saw your scope setup in the observatory. The size comparison of the scope to the mount in the observatory is absurd.
Hehe
Your coat is unbuttoned and you're using "firecapture"...I can feel the rage! Clear skies Dylan.
Can't wait to see if that new scope arrives, the coranado seems a little too zoomed out for any useful detail alas.
Can’t wait !
Solar imaging is kinda cool too, nice video
Nice photos man
You need a better mount for that scope, the mount is the most important piece of astrophotography
Dude I love your videos thank you so much for continuing to post!
AS IF I HAD NOT ENOUGH TELESCOPES ON MY WHISHLIST, NOW I NEED A SOLAR ONE TOO...
Anyway, great video as usual !
why didnt you just put the pst on the celestron ? its just so small.
I normally do.. but I’m breaking it all down so 🤷🏽♂️
Cheep solar filter for any telescope? 2 ply of Mylar space blanket over the end and your in business.. works on any scope. O and ps. I’m soooo jealous of your mount and setup. For me.. that’s a dream setup
I feel your pain. My mount is doing major excursions in RA and I can't take decent images either. Time for a professional hypertune - but in the meantime I've been using my PST as well.
(Oh, and did you just call one of your major sponsors a Ponzi scheme? LOL)
Hehehe good luck with your mount !
Those little PSTs really are a pain, especially when that Ha window starts drifting as they warm up.
The size mismatch between mount and scope is ridiculous 😀
Oh Dylan, there is nothing special about being high on a mountain. Except to say you where "High" on the mountain. Woah, how did you know I have a pizza right now? Be careful Dylan, if you stare at The Sun to long; you will see Sun Spots everywhere.
Don’t worry .. I’m smarter than the last president!
Hey Dylan. High Point Scientific is located in Montague NJ. Just down the road from High Point State Park which is the highest point in the state. When I go near there to shoot the stars I think I make it a little higher. Love your channel. 🌯
Thanks Dan!
So I live in New Jersey and High Point Scientific is in New Jersey so here goes.... High Point in very close to High Point NJ and that is the highest point in the state... Now they may be smoking up there I dont know but NJ just passed a pot law.. So if I get the wrong order I would think they are taking advantage of that law.... Remember it's all meaningless ..
Hello. Can I do digiscoping of the sun with Coronado PST and iPhone plz?
I think you need a bigger mount.
Wow, I'm impressed with the PST. I've had a Coronado 70 since the 2012 Venus transit and this motivates me to give solar imaging a try. (but not today because its snowing, and I mean the type of snow that makes you cold, not high)
Came for Astrophotography, stayed for the jokes.
That image is insane!!!!!! I’ve been trying to get a good image with a pst for years, and never got anything close to that. But, you’ve convinced me to try again (if I can get my EQ6-R pro out from the garage that is blocked by a snowbank (thanks Canada)). In the past I tried with a dslr, but I’ll try the ZWO294MCpro this time. Worth a shot. Just need the sun to rise more than 20 degrees above the horizon (Canada!!!!)....
It’s not the best .. but some some heavy handed post processing it can work!
6 Weeks with solid cloud cover and now 8 inches of snow and counting. In Nebraska USA
You should try for an ISS pass of the Sun I managed it from my observatory using a Coronado scope using a Point grey grasshopper camera on the iMAC, unfortunately the MAC is nearly dead so I've been unable to try it again although I did manage it using a DMK41 & laptop but it dropped a few frames a higer speed camera would be better I guess.
I’ve done it once :)
Cool stuff mate I've gotta say that picture of the Lunt looks very similar to the Lunt35 I have, well when I say I have my other half has it on permanent loan lol
Best promo ever 😂😂😂 Shame they only ship to the US. The rest of the video was quite cool too. Good luck with the new scope if it arrives. 🤞
Thankfully, I haven’t lost my sponsorship. 😆
Nice work with tbe PST Dylan. I love my Coronado Ha scope. Look forward to your opinion on the Lunt as I am considering the same scope for travels on the little ioptron mount.
The PST looks too cute on the CGX.
If you need a solar tracking program let me know. I use LuSol guide which is ascom compliant and dedicated to tracking the sun and moon.
It is no longer available for download as he appears to have shut down the site but the last version is solid.
Interesting, thanks! Yeh I’ll let you know if the mystery scope arrives. Seems to have a whole bunch of sweet lunt stacked upgrades and stuff you could never get with the PST too. I’m hoping it doesn’t have the banding either.
Dylan O'Donnell. Bad boy of astrophotography 😎
Deathly Australian sun - you're not kidding, noon UV indexes over 13 at this time of year; we had 14 the other day. Northern hemisphere folk just don't get what that means.
Ken oath